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first fifteen music meme

man, i haven’t been tagged in a meme in a very, very long time. these days, when i’m ‘tagged’, it usually mean someone has added my name to a photo or post on facebook. but remember the good ol’ days of blogging (like, 4 years ago), when someone would start or pass along a meme and call out other bloggers to follow suit?

i always like the music ones. so, when my buddy dave palmer ‘tagged’ me on facebook yesterday with a music listening meme, i was all in.

the instructions were simply:

1) Turn on your MP3 player or music player on your computer.
2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode.
3) Write down the first 15 songs that come up–song title and artist–NO editing/cheating, please.

i appreciated that the instructions added that polite little “please” after the strong reminder not to cheat.

well, considering the 69.79 gigs of music in my itunes, i could just have easily looked like a ninny. but the first 15 tunes in my itunes dj shuffle thingy are a pretty nice little playlist, if i do say so myself:

1. Lucy meets Mr. Tumnus – Chronicles of Narnia: Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe Soundtrack
2. 1 Corinthians 15:55 – American VI: Ain’t No Grave by Johnny Cash
3. The Future – Live in London by Leonard Cohen
4. Hallelujah – Grace by Jeff Buckley
5. All Along the Watchtower – The Essential Bob Dylan, Vol. 1 by Bob Dylan
6. The Way it Is – Move by Yourself by Donavon Frankenreiter
7. Take Me Down – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Saddness by Smashing Pumpkins
8. Summertime – Life by Audio Adrenaline
9. Hallelujah, Here She Comes – The Best of 1980-1990 by U2
10. White Man – Ancient Skies by The Michael Gungor Band
11. Cat Dubh – Boy by U2
12. Where did you sleep last night – MTV Unplugged in New York by Nirvana
13. Pink Triangle – Pinkerton by Weezer
14. More than Sorry – Both Sides of the Gun by Ben Harper
15. Boomin’ – Portable Sounds by TobyMac

1. Pressure – Paramore
2. This Is War – 30 Seconds to Mars
3. This Photograph is Proof- Taking Back Sunday
4. Only One – Hillsong United
5. Stay With Me – Finch
6.Here is Our King (LIVE)- David Crowder Band
7. The B-List – The Starting Line
8. Minority (LIVE) – Green Day
9. Laugh Right Back – Stick to Your Guns
10. To Hell With the Letdown – Artist vs. Poet
11. The Shooting Star That Destroyed Us All – A Static Lullaby
12. Right Now – This Beautiful Republic
13. Song for the Broken – BarlowGirl
14. Shiny Eyes – Flatfoot 56
15. Garden – Pearl Jam

1. Ska Dub Reagge by The Skatalites
2. Baby Don’t Get Hooked on Me by Mac Davis
3. Who Can Be Against Me by the O.C. Supertones
4. White Christmas by Diana Krall
5. Great is Thy Faithfulness by Glenn Bulthuis
6. Nostalgia by Michael Jones
7. Oh Thou That Tellest Good Tidings by Susan AShton
8. Oh Holy Night by Faith Hill
9. The Millennium Falcon by London Symphony Orchestra
10. You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby by Michael Buble
11. A Savior on Capital Hill by Derek Webb
12. Wild Horses by The Rolling Stones
13. Alright by Tree63
14. Love is Blindless by Sixpence None the Richer
15. Open the Eyes of My Heart by Randy Travis

1. All Around The World or The Myth of Fingerprints – Paul Simon
2. Say It Ain’t So – Weezer
3. Every Planet We Reach is Dead – Gorillaz
4. Sweet Hitch-Hiker – Creedence Clearwater Revival
5. Incomplete – Switchfoot
6. Fade In-Out – Oasis
7. The Party Song – Blink-182
8. Somewhere North of Here – Caedmon’s Call
9. The Tip of the Iceberg – Owl City
10. Father of Mine – Everclear
11. 40 Acres (Live) – Caedmon’s Call
12. In Your Arms – Michael Coffman (good friend from college now in The 71’s)
13. I Could Be There For You – Eisley
14. The Hardest Part – Coldplay
15. Daylight – Coldplay

Chemical Party-Gavin DeGraw
All Year Long-Michael W. Smith
Emily–Since October
Great Reward-Shane and Shane
Jesus Born On This Day-Avalon
Ma Ya Hi-Dan Balan
Reign In Us-Starfield
All About Love-Castin Pearls
Taking Chances-Celine Dion
You Alone-Casting Pearls
My Inheritance-Ronnie Freeman
Unbreakable-Fireflight
Part Of Me-Since October
Salvation-Charlie Hall
The Remedy-Ayiesha Woods

1. Elvis Presley – Can’t Help Falling in Love (not many will be surprised that Elvis came up first)
2. Keb’ Mo ‘- Better Man
3. Bon Jovi – Livin’ on a Prayer
4. AC/DC – Safe in New York City
5. Scott Stroman – Benedictus (from his Jazz Mass)
6. John Coltrane – The Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost
7. The Dust Brothers – Corporate World (from the Fight Club soundtrack)
8. Jimmy Needham – Moving to Zion (I just added this from a free CD I received)
9. The Five Blind Boys of Alabama – Way Down in the Hole (a great cover of Tom Waits)
10. Ike Sturm – Agnus Dei (from his Jazz Mass)
11. Scott Stroman – Kyrie (from his Jazz Mass)
12. Guns N’ Roses – You Could Be Mine (brings me back to early high school)
13. Ike Sturm – Thanksgiving (from his Jazz Mass)
14. Mike Crawford And His Secret Siblings – Search Me (worship band from Jacob’s Well)
15. The Dust Brothers – Psycho Boy Jack (from the Fight Club soundtrack)

1. And Can It Be – Over the Rhine
2. Good Thing – Fine Young Cannibals
3. Smooth Rider -Dave Matthews Band
4.Let Joy and Innocence Prevail – Grace Jones
5. Pride – U2
6. Blacking Out the Friction – Death Cab for Cutie
7. You Only – Flyleaf
8. Do the Whirlwind – Architecture in Helsinki
9. Quicken – Thousand Foot Crutch
10. From Head to Toe – Elvis Costello & The Attractions
11. Kamikaze – The Belairs
12. Golden Years – David Bowie
13. Something More Than This – October Project
14. Land Down Under – Men at Work
15. Going Under – Evanescence

I’m Mark Oestreicher

I'm a partner in The Youth Cartel, providing services and resources for individual youth workers and organizations. I’ve been married to Jeannie for 30 years, and have two great kids: Riley (22) and Max (18).
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